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Welcome to the Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Public Health, and Psychology LibGuide from the Zayed University Library. This guide is intended to help you navigate library services, find a book, locate a journal or article, navigate a database, and find quality sites on the Internet. The menu on the left hand side of the page will help you navigate between topics. This is a service that enables you to find the information resources you need, as well as communicate with your librarian through email or chat. Remember, librarians are here to provide you with appropriate support.

This best-selling writing guide by a prominent biologist teaches students to think as biologists and to express ideas clearly and concisely through their writing.

Providing students with the tools they'll need to be successful writers in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology emphasizes writing as a means to examine, evaluate, share, and refine ideas. The text teaches students how to read critically, study, evaluate and report data, and how to communicate information clearly and logically.

Students are also given detailed advice on locating useful sources, interpreting the results of statistical tests, maintaining effective laboratory and field notebooks, writing effective research proposals and poster presentations, writing effective applications, and communicating information to both professional and general audiences.